Every day, in the early part of the 2024 MLB season, it’s the same.
Wake up in the morning. Check the headlines. Notice another pitcher is probably headed to the IL with an arm issue.
For Colorado Rockies fans, it feels a bit like the rest of baseball is finally catching up to a 2023 that saw first Lucas Gilbreath and later Germán Márquez, Antonio Senzatela, Gabriel Hughes, and Jackson Cox undergoing Tommy John surgery — the last four in the span of a few weeks.
Just last week, Eury Pérez, Shane Bieber, Spencer Strider, Josiah Gray, Trevor Gott, and Framber Valdez have either suffered some kind of arm discomfort that sent them to the IL, were scheduled for surgery, or had a procedure performed on their arm.